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How America’s ‘most powerful lobby’ is stifling efforts to reform oil well cleanup in state after state
This story was originally published by Capital & Main and ProPublica. Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in …